Mommy Jayden Day

It's been a busy night. It's 2:32am and I am just now caught up! One of my babies has lots of labs and x-rays and they all fell around change of shift/first few hours of shift! Craziness! One more night and then I'm off until Sunday! Even though I have to work Sunday after that I'm off until Thursday! So I'm almost off an entire week! Yay!


Today Jayden played hookey from school. I finally rolled out of bed around 9:45-10am (even though my alarm had been going off for over an hour!), and Jayden didn't get up until around 10-10:30am! So, I made the decision that it was going to be a Mommy Jayden day! We got up picked up the house, made lunch, ate, played outside, put mound ate killer on all the ant beds throughout the entire yard (front and back) and there were lots! Then we sprayed eachother with the hose! Jayden thought it was funny, me, not so much. Actually while I was getting ready to kill the ants Jayden sprayed me and I yelled, but I was laughing within 10 seconds! I tried really hard to hide the laughter, but I quickly gave in! He was just too cute, and I was soaking wet in my pajamas! Oh well!


We saw Molly, Baxter and Grandma (I always forget what they call her) outside and Jayden, Baxter and Molly were all super excited. Well, me too! I know Molly wanted to get in on the "spray eachother" game! Maybe next time!


After that it was shower and nap time. Then we got up and headed off to Red Robin to meet Becky, Chris, Taylor, Brady, Dorothy, Becky, Andrea, Mallory and Chloe. I think I got everyone! Jayden was really excited to see Mallory, it's been a long time. I was glad to see Andrea. She's so sweet, and it's been a long time. I'll see more of her this weekend. Oh, and she's pregnant again! Then I was off to work! Fun, I know!


Oh! I guess while we were eating Jayden told Mallory (who's 5 now) that we were going to have a baby. And I guess she asked what the baby's name was. So, he yells across the table to me, "Mom, what's our baby's name?" Shocked, I said, "Jayden, we don't have a baby." He said, "I know, but when we get one what's it's name?" One of those funny things kids say!
Ok, enough. I've got things I need to do. Have a great day!


Oh, and I found out that baby Kylie went home Sunday night around 9:30pm and I got all their meals taken care of this morning! Yay!

Drawings

Tonight I was voted in as a "real" firefighter! So now I'm official! Kinda' scary, huh?

On another note:
This is a picture of Jayden's first people drawing ever awhile back (that was done with prompting).


Tonight, Jayden drew a picture of a man and shocked us all! His drawings are usually just scribbles, but we looked up and there was a man! Here's a picture of his second man drawing:

the first man "went swimming" and was colored over by "water" so I didn't get a picture. The first man even had hair! Much improvement, huh?

They amaze you every step of the way! The camera on my phone does too! If it only had a flash!

Tomorrow, pick up the house for the housekeeper (coming Wednesday - I was wrong) then sleep for work, boo! Only two nights and then our crazy weekend begins. I wish it was more of a restful adventure, but it never is.

Nothing much going on around here. Just work and sleep for me. Thursday night Jayden spent the night with my Dad while everyone else was at work or out of town. He got to drive in with my Dad to work and my Mom and I picked him up on our way home. He was pretty excited to get to go to Pa-Pa's work, although he was very shy while he was there. Imagine that, Jayden shy?!?!

Friday night we had yummy steak and potatoes with the Boyer's. I guess that I can't really address them as just Eddie and Megan anymore! How great! They are finally in the "parenting boat" with us! I held Clarie while the boys got everything ready. Then I helped clean up in the kitchen while Megan took care of Claire and Jayden fell asleep on the couch! After dinner we went to Chili's so Megan could get out of the house for a bit and we could get dessert! Yum! It was Claire's first trip out to eat! I love being a part of their "firsts" just as they were a part of ours!

Saturday we tried to go see Meet the Robbinsons, but the line was REALLY long! So instead we just headed over to the bookstore to buy Babywise for Eddie and Megan. That is the best book. I recommend it to anyone and everyone for helping with those first few months. It has worked so wonderfully for us and so many others I know. Then we headed home for a nap!

Saturday night I got the taxes finished and e-filed. They were accepted so as soon as I get the check we are paying off our Honduras trip (no fund raising this year) and getting the dead tree cut down. Other thoughts on how to spend the extra: new tv for the bedroom (really needed since I have to sleep at weird times and I can't let my 3 year old roam around the house alone), buy the rest of the furniture for the living room (missing two bookcases from IKEA - if they would ever have them in stock!!!) best choice - savings for when I have the next baby and stay home for 12 weeks. So we'll see...

Sunday was church and lunch with friends and family. We saw the O'Neals which was nice. And we also ate with the Jones whom I also love. Fallon is so awesome!

Tomorrow, finish picking up the house for the housekeeper and sleep! Fire department tomorrow night. Then back to work Tuesday and Wednesday night. Then LTC this weekend. No, it never ends - especially in April! Have a great week!